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Lost in Violence-Forging Memories from Legacies of Neglect in Spanish and Peruvian Contemporary Novels.

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Title/Author:	Lost in Violence-Forging Memories from Legacies of Neglect in Spanish and Peruvian Contemporary Novels./
Author:	Oliveri, Jonathan James.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-12A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
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ISBN:	9798641347363

Lost in Violence-Forging Memories from Legacies of Neglect in Spanish and Peruvian Contemporary Novels.
Oliveri, Jonathan James.

Lost in Violence-Forging Memories from Legacies of Neglect in Spanish and Peruvian Contemporary Novels. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 256 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation constitutes an examination and approximation of neglected violent pasts through an analysis of a selection of contemporary Spanish and Peruvian novels. The Spanish novels in question are as follows: Las leyes de la frontera (2012) written by Javier Cercas; Talco y bronce (2017) authored by Montero Glez; Yonqui (2014) and Cuando gritan los muertos (2018) written by Paco Gomez Escribano; and lastly Lumpen (2015) co-authored by Gomez Escribano and Luis Gutierrez Maluenda. Additionally, the Peruvian novels which play a fundamental role in the present study are: Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (1993); El cazador ausente (2000) and El rincon de los muertos (2014) both authored by Alfredo Pita; La hora azul by Alonso Cueto (2005); and lastly Abril rojo by Santiago Roncagliolo (2006). The Spanish novels revisit the Spanish Transition and the rise in juvenile delinquency and police brutality, that predominantly occurred during the mid-seventies to the late eighties. Those adolescents, deemed as quinquis (juvenile delinquents) or yonquis (junkies) by society, did not form part of Spain's idealistic image that was in construction during the transition to democracy. Los quinquis, aside from the inadequate portrayal by the media and cinema, were exposed to horrible living conditions, hunger, poverty and death. This new wave of literature, literatura quinqui, reconstructs their image, culture and spirit from a contemporary perspective. In the Andean region of Peru, predominantly Ayacucho, the Maoist terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso and the State got involved in a civil war from 1980-2000, where many innocent indigenous people were caught between the crossfire. During this two-decade period of mass violence the State made it permissible to kill the "other", the indigenous, because their belief systems were deemed "antiquated" and did not coincide with the country's vision of progress. Los quinquis and the indigenous communities were eradicated by the hegemonic discourses of their nations due to their alterity. Furthermore, the biopolitics behind the violence in both situations refer to precarious lives and systemic decisions by the State that defines some lives to be worth less than others.The writing of memory, the main theme throughout this dissertation, is powered by legacies of neglect. The contemporary novels I study, underscore the theme of neglect or absence and the inclination to fill that void by building an archive of silenced voices in literature. Therefore, these literary works forge memories via different mediums of expression, modes and literary strategies. Amongst these mediums of expression are literature, film and music; among the modes I study is melodrama to recruit these ample violent pasts into an individualized personal narrative, and amongst the foremost literary stratetgies are the narrative recreation of memory images. These novels, comparably to memory, are bridges to the past and connect us with the dead but more specifically these literary works seek reconciliation through reflection and engagement.

ISBN: 9798641347363Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.
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Memory

Lost in Violence-Forging Memories from Legacies of Neglect in Spanish and Peruvian Contemporary Novels.
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520 $a This dissertation constitutes an examination and approximation of neglected violent pasts through an analysis of a selection of contemporary Spanish and Peruvian novels. The Spanish novels in question are as follows: Las leyes de la frontera (2012) written by Javier Cercas; Talco y bronce (2017) authored by Montero Glez; Yonqui (2014) and Cuando gritan los muertos (2018) written by Paco Gomez Escribano; and lastly Lumpen (2015) co-authored by Gomez Escribano and Luis Gutierrez Maluenda. Additionally, the Peruvian novels which play a fundamental role in the present study are: Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (1993); El cazador ausente (2000) and El rincon de los muertos (2014) both authored by Alfredo Pita; La hora azul by Alonso Cueto (2005); and lastly Abril rojo by Santiago Roncagliolo (2006). The Spanish novels revisit the Spanish Transition and the rise in juvenile delinquency and police brutality, that predominantly occurred during the mid-seventies to the late eighties. Those adolescents, deemed as quinquis (juvenile delinquents) or yonquis (junkies) by society, did not form part of Spain's idealistic image that was in construction during the transition to democracy. Los quinquis, aside from the inadequate portrayal by the media and cinema, were exposed to horrible living conditions, hunger, poverty and death. This new wave of literature, literatura quinqui, reconstructs their image, culture and spirit from a contemporary perspective. In the Andean region of Peru, predominantly Ayacucho, the Maoist terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso and the State got involved in a civil war from 1980-2000, where many innocent indigenous people were caught between the crossfire. During this two-decade period of mass violence the State made it permissible to kill the "other", the indigenous, because their belief systems were deemed "antiquated" and did not coincide with the country's vision of progress. Los quinquis and the indigenous communities were eradicated by the hegemonic discourses of their nations due to their alterity. Furthermore, the biopolitics behind the violence in both situations refer to precarious lives and systemic decisions by the State that defines some lives to be worth less than others.The writing of memory, the main theme throughout this dissertation, is powered by legacies of neglect. The contemporary novels I study, underscore the theme of neglect or absence and the inclination to fill that void by building an archive of silenced voices in literature. Therefore, these literary works forge memories via different mediums of expression, modes and literary strategies. Amongst these mediums of expression are literature, film and music; among the modes I study is melodrama to recruit these ample violent pasts into an individualized personal narrative, and amongst the foremost literary stratetgies are the narrative recreation of memory images. These novels, comparably to memory, are bridges to the past and connect us with the dead but more specifically these literary works seek reconciliation through reflection and engagement.
520 $a Esta tesis doctoral constituye una aproximacion a pasados violentos que fueron negados por sus sociedades, a traves de un analisis de una seleccion de novelas contemporaneas de Espana y Peru. Las novelas espanolas que estan en cuestion son: Las leyes de la frontera (2012) de Javier Cercas; Talco y bronce (2017) una obra escrita por Montero Glez; Yonqui (2014) y Cuando gritan los muertos (2018) ambas novelas fueron escritas por Paco Gomez Escribano; y Lumpen (2015) que fue escrita conjuntamente por Gomez Escribano y Luis Gutierrez Maluenda. Las novelas peruanas que desempenan un papel fundamental en el presente analisis son: Lituma en los Andes de Mario Vargas Llosa (1993); El cazador ausente (2000) y El rincon de los muertos (2014) escritas por Alfredo Pita; La hora azul por Alonso Cueto (2005); y Abril rojo de Santiago Roncagliolo (2006). Las novelas espanolas revisitan la Transicion Espanola y el auge de la delincuencia juvenil y la brutalidad policial predominantemente desde mediados de los setenta hasta finales de los ochenta. Estos adolescentes sin escrupulos, quinquis (delincuentes) o, en algunos casos yonquis (drogadictos), no formaron parte de la imagen progresiva democratica de Espana de la Transicion y fueron vistos como una amenaza a la democracia. Estos jovenes de los barrios espanoles se enfrentaron con el hambre, la pobreza y la muerte desde una edad muy joven. El nuevo movimiento de literatura que se llama literatura quinqui a la que permanencen las obras seleccionadas, reconstruye la imagen de esta generacion, su cultura y su espiritu desde una perspectiva contemporanea. Por el otro lado, las novelas peruanas reconstruyen la violencia masiva e interna de Peru de los ochenta y los noventa del siglo pasado. En esa epoca, Peru sufrio una guerra civil entre el ejercito y Sendero Luminoso, un grupo terrorista maoista. Ambos lados del conflicto hundieron al pais y especificamente a la region andina (Ayacucho) en un bano de sangre. Esta violencia masiva y entre projimos, lo hizo permisible matar al "otro", al indigena porque se considero que sus creencias antiguas no encajaban en la vision hegemonica y progresista de la nacion. Los marginalizados antagonicos, los quinquis y los indigenas, respectivamente, fueron oprimidos y erradicados por su alteridad durante esos tiempos de transicion cuando las leyes estaban en un estado de fluctuacion. Ademas, la biopolitica detras de la violencia en ambos contextos se refiere a vidas precarias y decisiones sistemicas del Estado que deciden que algunas vidas valen menos que otras.Estos legados de neglicencia alimentan la escritura de la memoria, la cual es el tema principal de esta tesis. Las novelas contemporaneas que estudio destacan este tema de negligencia o ausencia con la inclinacion de llenar ese vacio al construir un archivo de voces silenciadas en la literatura. Por lo tanto, estas novelas forjan memorias a traves de distintos medios de expresion, modos y estrategias literarias. Entre los medios de expresion son la literatura, el cine y la musica; el modo que examino es melodrama porque es capaz de emplazar contextos amplios de violencia en narrativas personales e individualizadas, y ultimamente entre las estrategias literarias es la recreacion de imagenes mnemonicas. Estas novelas, de la misma forma que la memoria, son un puente al pasado y nos conectan con los muertos, pero, mas concretamente, buscan reconciliacion con el pasado a traves de la reflexion y participacion literarias.
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